Observations

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Every Monday we dedicated the beginning of our experiment time to cleaning out the homes of our meal worms and measuring their length.

Name Size
Abercrombie
(Chelsea)
 13 segments; 2 cm
2.3 on January 31
2.3 on February 7
2.5 on February 14
Became a PUPA on February 21
Fitch
(Chelsea)
 11 segments; 1.5 cm
2.1 on January 31
2.2 on February 7
2.4 on February 14th
Ruff
(Margie)
 12 segments; 2.5 cm
no growth on January 31
2.8 cm on February 7
2.8 on February 14
Became a PUPA on February 16
Changed to beetle on Feb 25th
and is now a brownish colour.
Tumble
(Margie)
 12 segments; 1.5 cm
no growth on January 31
1.7 cm on February 7
2.3 on February 14
Sergeant Slaughter
(Matt)
 12 segments; 1.9 cm
2.3 on January 31
2.5 cm on feb 7
2.8 on February 14
Became Pupa on Feb 23rd
Andre the Giant
(Matt)
 13 segments; 2 cm
2.5 on January 31
2.6 cm on feb 7
2.9 cm on February 14
Became Pupa on Feb 23rd
Coco Beware
(Matt)
 13 segments; 1.8 cm
1.8 cm on January 31
2.2 cm on feb 7
2.5 cm on February 14
Became Pupa on Feb 25th
Salt
(Kim)
 13 segments; 2.3 cm
2.5 on January 31
2.5 on feb 7
3 cm on February 14
Became a PUPA on Feb 21
Peppa
(Kim)
 13 segments; 2 cm
2.5 on January 31
2.5 on feb 7
3cm on February 14
Became a Pupa Feb. 25
Crankin Von Snapenpuss aka cranky
(Khaled)

Jim Jim
(Khaled)
13 segments; 1.6 com
1.8 on January 31
2.5 on February 7th
2.5cm feb 7
Became a PUPA on February 21
13 segments; 2 cm
2.4 cm on January 31
2.5 cm on February 7
Became a Pupa on Feb. 25



We also were interested in whether the meal worms would change into Pupa faster in the presence of other meal worms/pupa.

In our group we split up our meal worms, giving each person 2-3 meal worms. It took our worms a long time to change to the pupa stage with the first being on Feb. 16th. Others changed around Feb, 21st. After that they began to all change rapidly so that now the majority of the meal worms are at the pupa stage.(Note information above for more details on dates of change)

We also talked to other groups to see how they housed their meal worms and how quickly their meal worms changed into the pupa stage.
  • Danielle Leblanc's group housed their meal worms all together and they had 7 pupa's at the time that we asked them. They told us that they noticed their pupa changing fairly quickly after the first one.
  • Sara Belliveau's group housed all of their meal worms together except for one that was housed separately. They experienced the same type of situation in that the meal worms that were housed together seemed to change faster and the one that was on its own was still a meal worm at the end of the experiment process.